Adobe Photoshop

What works

What I tried, and can confirm works:

• Level adjustments
• Image or canvas scaling
• Paint brushes
• Canvas zooming - with minor annoying glitch -
• Selection tools
• Blur tools
• Layers
• A few of the transformation tools
• Other features...

What does not

Glitches during zooming in or out of the image canvas, aka back frames during scaling.  I couldn't find a workaround for this annoying issue

No means to update - with the updates available - using the adobe extension manager.

Workarounds

I installed from a CD with the serial key. The installer worked for photoshop, illustrator, indesign, bridge and fireworks from the adobe CS6 installer. Acrobat pro was the only application that failed to install.

To use the installer you must use winetricks and add support for: atmlib allfonts gdiplus msxml3 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 d3dx9 flash.

I recommend using the gui version of winetricks rather than the command line version, for some reason I was initially having issues where msxml3 and vcrun2008 wouldn't install on a 64bit wineprifix.

What was not tested

A few advanced features:

• The paint brush was more ridged on the edges using a hard brush, haven't tried with different dpi or font smoothing. 
• any advanced color profile or clipping tools
• any advanced Print features
• any of the pattern creation tools - but I'd bet they'd work -
• any of the brush creation tools - but I'd bet they'd work -
• any of the 3D features - never saw the point of them any ways, go use blender or equivalent software if you want this -
• any of the animation features - Again there is better software for this, go try opentoonz or better software -
• any of the artistic filters
• the smart layers
• smart layer compatibility with illustrator on wine.
• Other features....

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

I give it between a silver or a gold rating, but keep in mind I was able to install photoshop, illustrator, indesign, bridge, and fireworks all at once using the installer with most things working out of the box...

I even managed to get the adobe extension manager installed only it wasn't automatically pulling in the available updates to install for cs6 and instead links to the CC extension page online now.